AN AMERICAN historian called for Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum to be replicated stateside during a visit to the city.
Professor Eric Foner was in Liverpool to deliver a lecture on US president Abraham Lincoln. Speaking at Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum, he said: “This is an excellent museum. Even in the United States, which had the largest slave system in the modern world, we don’t have a museum like this one.”
Prof Foner recently won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his book: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. While Lincoln abolished slavery in America, he held controversial views on racial equality.
The International Slavery Museum, in Merseyside Maritime Museum, opened in 2007 and has welcomed more than 1m visitors in the years since.
